If you are sanguine about a situation, especially a difficult one, you are confident and cheerful that everything will work out the way you want it to.

Serendipity is the good fortune that some people encounter in finding or making interesting and valuable discoveries purely by luck.

Someone who is sullen possesses an ill humor, and so is generally gloomily silent and brooding much of the time.

When you refer to someone as a troglodyte, you disapprove of him because he tends to be lacking in social skills and is out of step with current times.

If someone is described as vivacious, you mean that she is lively and has a happy lighthearted manner.

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Noun

felicity

fi-LIS-i-tee

Context

Donna’s and Don’s wedding was a day of cheerful, joyous felicity for the whole family. Guests gathered, filled with wishes of happiness or felicity for the couple. The celebration, filled with bliss, delight, good spirits, and felicity, lasted until dawn; the couple, however, had left around midnight.

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Related Words

blithe ·

buoyant ·

convivial ·

effervescent ·

enthrall ·

euphoria+ ·

exuberance ·

exult ·

jocular ·

propitious ·

providential ·

rapturous ·

sanguine ·

serendipity ·

vivacious ·

bilious ·

bristling ·

despondent ·

dirge ·

disaffected ·

dolorous ·

dour ·

dreary+ ·

ennui ·

excruciating+ ·

irascible ·

lugubrious ·

melancholy ·

morose ·

pensive ·

plaintive ·

sullen+ ·

troglodyte ·

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Word Variants

felicitous
adj

→

suitable; fortunate

infelicitous
adj

→

unsuitable; unfortunate

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